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IACP's resources are aimed at helping law enforcement executives do their jobs better and cover a variety of topics, including professional development, leadership, management, and supervision, as well as hot topics such as ethics.
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Investigating Sexual Assaults
Law enforcement employees should take a professional, victim-centered approach to sexual assaults and to proactively investigate these crimes and prosecute the perpetrator in a manner…
Registering and Tracking Sex Offenders
Law enforcement agencies should use all reasonable means to assist in the investigation of noncompliant sex offenders, to educate the public about personal safety precautions…
Secondary Employment
Police agencies should provide guidelines to employees to inform them of the types of secondary employment that are appropriate and to establish procedures to maintain…
Retaliatory Conduct by Employees
Law enforcement agencies should prohibit retaliatory conduct against or interference with an employee who reports, assists, or seeks to report breaches of department policy, procedures…
Response to Civil Litigation
Litigation against law enforcement officers can be extremely expensive and harmful to the reputation of the department and its employees. Therefore, law enforcement agencies should…
Communicable Disease Prevention
It is the responsibility of law enforcement agencies to ensure that their employees are able to perform their duties in a safe and effective manner…
Law Enforcement-Researcher Collaborative Partnerships
The ability of a law enforcement agency to respond to emerging issues and long-range goals is dependent upon the ability to implement new policies, programs…
Interrogations and Confessions
Custodial interrogations of suspects and the statements and confessions that are elicited are vitally important in the preparation of criminal cases. However, to be admissible…
Reporting Use of Force
The authority to use force carries with it the need for accountability in order to safeguard the rights of the public and preserve the integrity…
Interviewing and Interrogating Juveniles
The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the emotional and developmental differences between adults and juveniles and the implications that this has on the conduct of…
Recording Police Activity
Members of the public, including media representatives, have an unambiguous First Amendment right to record officers in public places, as long as their actions do…
Protection of Firearms and Explosives Repositories During Civil Disturbances
Civil disorders have been demonstrated to present highly fruitful opportunities for violence-prone elements of society to steal firearms, ammunition, explosives and incendiary devices. In the…
